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Transportation planners and traffic engineers have expressed concerns over the traffic safety drawbacks presented by the street hierarchy. Recent studies have found higher traffic fatality rates in outlying suburban areas than in central cities and inner suburbs with smaller blocks and more-connected street patterns.<ref>http://www.minority.unc.edu:9014/sph/minconf/2004/materials/ewing.etal.pdf
{{deadlink}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2002/lucy-april-30-2002.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903234004/http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2002/lucy-april-30-2002.html |archive-date=2006-09-03 |df= }}</ref> While some of this disparity is the result of distance from emergency medical facilities (hospitals are usually not built in a newly developed suburban area until a fairly late stage in its development), it is clear that the higher speeds engendered by the street hierarchy increase the severity of accidents occurring along arterial roads. An earlier study<ref>Eran Ben-Joseph, Livability and Safety of Suburban Street Patterns: A Comparative Study (Berkeley, CA: Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Working Paper 641, 1995)</ref> found significant differences in recorded accidents between residential neighbourhoods that were laid out on an undifferentiated grid and those that included culs-de-sac and crescents in a hierarchical structure. The frequency of accidents was significantly higher in the grid neighbourhoods.
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